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A British headmistress has resigned after shocking parents and kids by sending a student-raised lamb to the butcher. Andrea Chapman quit the Lydd Primary School in Kent for "personal reasons" after an animal rights Internet campaign rallied support in a bid to save woolly Marcus. Despite school community and Facebook protests, Marcus was slaughtered. The experience was intended to show children how meat was raised, Chapman said at the time.

“Many children don’t realize that animals they probably pass every week end up on their plate," Chapman explained. Several parents hailed the news that Chapman is leaving, while a number of educators praised her work, reports the Times of London.

Yeah, right. Don't dare let those poor kiddies know that the lamb chops they had for dinner actually came from a living, breathing organism that feels pain and fear just as they do. Just tell them they came from the 'lamb chops fairy.'